It seems like forever since I’ve posted anything. The last few weeks have been pretty chaotic. None the less, I have been trying to keep up with the creativity.

This is a picture I took last year of a kid hanging out down the street from my house. I’ve been trying to learn the subtleties of the adjustment brush in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 to perform basic ‘dodging and burning’ techniques. It’s amazing how with the adjustment brush and exposure settings you can basically paint with light.

Here’s the original photo I posted last year to Flickr.

~youth~

(minor adjustments in iPhoto)

This is actually one of the very first photos I took after buying my 5D from B&H.

You can really see the difference between the color version above which has been hardly touched in iPhoto, and the black and white version below that has been ‘painted’ with exposure using the adjustment brush in Lightroom.

~youth~

(after image editing in Lightroom 2)